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Book-in-a-Day 31: Toilet Paper Roll Book. Lynne Perrella Collection. Tissue Paper & Paper Flowers Tutorial. I debated sharing this tutorial for a couple-o-reasons.

Tissue Paper & Paper Flowers Tutorial

Reason 1. It's a craft that has been around since before I was born and reason 2... it's a craft that has been around since before I was born. I feel like I might be a 100 years old at this point. My crows feet asked for slippers the other day cause they were getting cold. Since it's new to me I figure it's got to be new to someone else too so I am doing it anyway! 6 Pretty Crafts from Handmade Paper. Painting With Watercolors, Glue & Salt. Ever since our adventure with “secret message watercolor painting” the munchkin has been enamored with his watercolors.

Painting With Watercolors, Glue & Salt

So this week we decided to mix things up a bit by painting with watercolors, clear Elmer’s glue and salt. Isn’t the final result neat? The idea for using glue and salt with watercolors came from Pinterest. Antique Paper Recipe. This project is great for aging school projects, invitations or other paper craft projects.

Antique Paper Recipe

Learn to create that antique look! What you need Tea bags Coffee Sponge brush Instructions Make a cup of tea with a tea bag and let the bag sit in the tea for five to ten minutes. Marbleizing Paper Tutorial. To make this fun and easy marbleized paper you will need: 1/2 tsp alum (helps paint adhere to the paper), 2 cups liquid starch, liquid acrylic paints, a long wooden skewer , a 9 X 13 pan and white copy paper cut to fit the inside your pan.

Marbleizing Paper Tutorial

You can change up the size of the pan, just keep the proportions of starch and alum the same. The starch should be 1 to 2 inches deep in your pan. Pour 2 cups of liquid starch in the pan then add 1/2 tsp alum stirring until mixed. Gently drop acrylic paint on the surface of the starch. Quilled Paper Portrait - Yulia Brodskaya. The latest quilled portrait from talented paper artist Yulia Brodskaya.

Quilled Paper Portrait - Yulia Brodskaya

From her last piece Loves Doves to this piece, she has definitely changed the tone of colors to be less of a skin tone varient in terms of palette and more vibrant. This woman’s face bursts with swirls of color as she smokes her pipe and seems to be a perfect blend into the start of Spring. via Colossal. Specialist Paper by Crafty Computer Paper. ARTchix: Beautiful Collage Sheets, Art Supplies & More. Decorative Paper, Handmade Paper, Wrapping Paper and Collage Papers by PaperArts.Com. All things paper. Sara Burgess - Cut Paper Artist. Brian Dettmer -

Lorraine Nam - Cut Paper Artist. Make Paper Beads - How To Information. Paper University - Art Class. Recycled Paper Beads In Victorian times, women in England gathered in dining rooms to make beads by rolling scraps of wallpaper on knitting needles.

Paper University - Art Class

They would then string the beads on long pieces of yarn to create curtains that separated rooms. You can make these beads from recycled scrap paper, and string them together to make jewelry! What you'll need: scraps of wallpaper, magazine pictures, used wrapping paper, colored paper, etc. pencil, ruler, and scissors paste drinking straws thread or yarn Before you begin, gather all of your supplies together and put them on your work surface. With your scissors, cut long triangles from your paper scraps that are about 1/2-inch wide and 2 1/2-inches long. Adapted from Papercrafts Around the World, by Phyllis and Noel Fiarotta (Sterlilng Publishing Co., Inc., New York) Step 1 Step 3 Step 5 Step 6. Flashback: Woven Map Basket. Maps can be amazing design elements, with all their intricately drawn lines and minute details.

Flashback: Woven Map Basket

But what do you do with a regular paper map that is starting to fall apart from use? In CRAFT Volume 05, crafter Jane Patrick suggested we weave maps into baskets, a fun and interesting way to reuse castoffs and weave a little memory into a functional item. Check out her full tutorial here and pick up a back issue of CRAFT Volume 05, the Paper issue, in the Maker Shed.Woven Memory Basket Weave your vacation road maps into an attractive souvenir. By Jane Patrick Think of basketry as three-dimensional weaving. 1000 Paper Cranes Backdrop. A few weeks ago I introduced you to one of my lovely Brides Laura who was new to the Diary of a Boho Bride feature.

1000 Paper Cranes Backdrop

You can read all about Laura’s wedding plans HERE . In Laura’s’ introduction I explained that she is a BIG fan of the old DIY and after a few emails and a few sneaky pictures of stuff she had already created, it was clear that she was an even bigger fan of DIY than I first thought. Origami Resource Center. Carved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramee. (click images for detail) For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer.

Carved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramee

Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene mountains, plateaus, and ancient structures. Of these works he says: Cardboard Sculptures by Daniel Agdag. If you ask Melbourne-based artist Daniel Agdag what he does, he’ll tell you that he makes things out of cardboard.

Cardboard Sculptures by Daniel Agdag

However this statement hardly captures the absurd complexity and detail of his boxboard and PVA glue sculptures that push the limits of the medium. Agdag is an award-winning creator of stop-motion films and this new series of work, Sets for a Film I’ll Never Make, feature a number of his structural experiments which he refers to simply as “sketching with cardboard”. Miraculously, each work is created without detailed plans or drawings and are almost wholly improvised as he works. Charles Clary – Paper Extravaganza. Amazing detailed paper installations created by Charles Clary made out of all hand-cut paper.

(via society6) Emma van Leest - Before the first rain. A likeness 2009 archival paper 71 x 101 cm All matter that exists 2009 archival paper 101 x 69 cm Certain Place 2008 archival paper 47 x 28 cm Incurred 2009 archival paper 40 x 37 cm Necessities 2009 archival paper 27 x 47 cm One after the other 2009 archival paper 28 x 46 cm. Journal, doodle, draw. Chiyogami - Art. Lucky Wishing Stars Tutorial. You’ve probably seen these little puffy origami stars before. They are really quick to make, and you don’t need any special materials to make them. You can buy lucky star pre-cut strips from origami stores, but you can just as easily make your own from medium weight coloured paper, e.g. scrapbooking paper, or even strips cut from magazine pages – as the strips are so narrow, the original text or image won’t be obvious in the finished star.

Printables. Quilled Snowflake Ornament. Today I have a big fat tutorial to share with you. It looks really really scary and detailed, but it’s not so bad. Trust me. 45+ Exceptionally Useful Free Handwritten Fonts. Should Handwritten Fonts be used in web design? For quite some time companies and governments have been working hard to make daily life things available as digital services in whatever way possible to speed processes up and cut costs. At the same time most communication takes place on digital channels by sending emails, chatting, electronic orders, paying online, doing banking online…well almost anything goes on the line today. Sending a good old snail mail letter is still possible but not that popular really. Kooi Collage collection. Paper Art by Yulia Brodskaya.

Yulia Brodskaya est une artiste russe vivant en Angleterre. Cette talentueuse créatrice nous propose de découvrir des compositions typographiques faîtes de papier. Très détaillées, ses oeuvres ont fait d’elle une artiste aujourd’hui prisée par de nombreux annonceurs à travers le monde. Plus dans la suite. Collage Ideas and How to Make A Collage. 1: If this is your first time I would use a page of card stock the same size as a piece of copy paper. Map Collages by Matthew Cusick. Paper Art - 100 Extraordinary Examples of Paper Art. Antique Paper Recipe. Sarah’s snowflake panels + light. Sewing 101: recycled paper basket. What is Washi Tape? An Overview of Paper and Tissue Tapes. Rideaux en perles de papier -

Colle de riz. Paper-cuts. On Paper / Grand Central at 100: Thomas Witte "Cutting Shadows" (1) Tim Budden Art. PapercutsByOren. All About Paper Cutting. Emma van Leest. Lucky Wishing Stars Tutorial. The cute rabbit packaging _ pictures from ocean603 share - heap Sugar Network. Antique Paper Recipe.

Sara Burgess - Cut Paper Artist. Chinese Paper Cut Art. Paper Art - 100 Extraordinary Examples Of Paper Art. 3D Paper Art By Maud Vantours. Make a confetti bowl. Cute things from paper. Lucky Wishing Stars Tutorial. Hello Hydrangea: Inspired By Yulia Brodskaya. All About Papercutting. Jacquemin - Folded Paper (Book Pages) Sculpture. Julie Dodd - Paper Sculptor & Altered Book Artist. Rogan Brown - Paper Sculptures. Papier Maché Art By Ellen Carlie. Paper Art. Brian Dettmer - Su Blackwell - Book Sculptor. Lorraine Nam - Cut Paper Artist. Quilled Paper Portrait - Yulia Brodskaya. PapercutsByOren. Peter Gentenaar: Paper Sculpture. Paper-cuts.